یادگیری انگلیسی با استفاده از تلویزیون و فیلم ها

Learn English With Movies And TV

What are you eating there Joe? Oh, no, it’s a spicy paste. On a donut? Well, I’m seeing this girl who likes spicy food but I can’t handle it. So I’m trying to build up my tolerance to have food before I date in, ah, 30 minutes. How exactly is that helping? Well, I don’t like spicy food but I do like donuts. One thing cancels out the other. Good one Joe. Could you be any more of a genius? Hey, Chandler I have to go out and why is Joey putting my Korean hot sauce on a donut? Oh he’s just building up his tolerance to spicy foods. Whatever, is Ross here? Oh, yes, he’s sitting next to me! He’s coming by to pick up my tennis racket but I have to go to work. Can you give it to him when he gets here? Why is he taking yours? I gave him mine last week. Really, that’s weird. He told me he just broke his yesterday. Ooh, hot. Joey! Mon! Hey man! Hey chandler. Have you seen Monica? No, why? You want to borrow something? No. All right. Ooh, donuts. Is that extra jam? Yep. Can I? Oh, definitely.

This is how you should actually be using movies and tv to improve your English. Well, first of all, by actively listening, you’re passively improving your speaking skills. So if you think that speaking is the only way to improve your speaking, I’m happy to tell you, that’s not true. Listen to how people speak; the pronunciation, the intonation, the style. And then, copy the parts that you like. That’s just the first way of how you can improve. For example, remember how chandler asked that question? On a donut? He didn’t use a question word, like who, what, why, when. But it was a question. And did you hear the intonation? On a donut? It goes up at the end. Listen to it. Copy it. Practice it. Use it in your next conversation. Oh, you’re Brazilian? Again, actively practicing your listening skills, passively improves your speaking skills.

Okay, but how can you improve your English if you don’t have a teacher, an English-speaking friend, you’re just you, watching Netflix. Well, we’re gonna learn in the same way that babies learn English, the natural way. Okay, Joey is talking about spicy food but he doesn’t want to keep repeating the same word, spicy. I’m seeing this girl who likes spicy food but I can’t handle it so I’m trying to build up my tolerance to hot food. First he said spicy food then he said hot food. So already we know, those are synonyms. We can catch synonyms for words and build our vocabulary that way. And, and we’re learning which word, which expression is best used depending on the context. For example when Joey says, Ooh, hot! We can see and understand that it’s more common to say hot when we talk about the feeling of the food or in this case, the reaction to it. And spicy, that’s more common just to talk about the type of food it is. It’s sweet food, savory food, salty food, spicy food, blah blah blah. So this is something to focus on, next time you’re watching movies and tv, focus on the synonyms. But also focus on which words, we’re more likely to use in which situations. Okay, but how do I watch a show or a movie if I only understand like 50 to 70 percent? Movies and tv, they’re for you to enjoy, not to study with and pay attention to every single word. I don’t pay attention to a hundred percent of what I’m watching. You probably don’t pay attention to every word in what you watch in your language. But yes, if you’re curious about a new word or a new expression that you’ve just heard, for example, so I’m trying to build up my tolerance to hot food; some people might watch that clip and be like, tolerance, tolerance, I know that word, it’s similar in my language. But what does this expression mean? Build my tolerance, huh? Again, we look at the context. He’s eating spicy food and we know that spicy food is painful. We know that Joey is rubbish with hot food but he wants to, at least get used to it. So, so from that context, we can infer that to build your tolerance to something probably means, I don’t know, suffer less from it or increase my ability to endure something painful or difficult or hard, something like that.

Okay, now what? Well, if you have an English teacher or an English-speaking friend, they can confirm the meaning. But we also have to remember it and add it to our vocabulary. So what do we do now? Make your own example, using that expression. Make it something relevant to your life that probably you’re going to use in the future. For example, for me, I want to build my tolerance to beer. No seriously, one beer and I’m sleeping.

And finally, with movies and tv, you can even learn new grammar without a teacher. You’ll just learn it the same way a baby learns it. For example, remember when Joey said this, well, I don’t like spicy food but I do like donuts. This might seem weird at first. I do like donuts? Shouldn’t it just be, I like donuts? Well, this is something we do in English when we really want to emphasize a point. For example, I really do love you! So much! We add the extra do, before the verb and it adds emphasis. Or to contradict a negative point. For example, Joey was comparing something he doesn’t like with something he does like. I don’t like this but I do like this. Or if someone said, you don’t love me. You can contradict that statement and reply like this, no, no, no, you’re wrong, I do love you.

Now of course, this might not be as easy or obvious in every case with every new piece of grammar that you hear. And sometimes, yeah, you’re gonna need a teacher or an English-speaking friend to clarify or to confirm the meaning, what you think it means. But often, we can learn new grammar just from the context. All right, fine but now what? Then, you gotta practice it again. Make an example, make it relevant to your life and try to use it in a future conversation. I bet you didn’t do your homework! Actually, mate! I did do my homework. Yeah, side note, you can use that “do” for emphasis, in the past tense too.